La Crete Maternity & Community Health Centre

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Tundra Foundations is proud of the work we completed on the new Maternity and Community Health Centre in La Crete, Alberta. We mobilized in late March and completed our final concrete pour at the end of June, finishing the project slightly ahead of schedule.

This was our first project working with Bird Construction, and it was a great experience. Their team was professional, helpful, and a pleasure to work with throughout the project.

Working in northern Alberta also provided a pretty impressive reminder of how quickly conditions can change. When we started in March, we experienced overnight temperatures as low as -29°C. By June, we were working in temperatures reaching +29°C!

And then there was the daylight: In La Crete, we had roughly an extra hour of daylight compared with Edmonton. The north-facing windows on my suite would bring direct sunlight into the building in both the early morning and late evening!

A great project, a great team, and another opportunity for Tundra Foundations to contribute to an important facility serving the community of La Crete.


BFN Admin Building

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Project: Beaver First Nation Admin Building
Completed: September 2025
Location: near High Level, AB
General Contractor: Krawford Construction Ltd.

Tundra recently completed the grade beam foundation on this building, and structural steel is already going up! The challenge on this project was accuracy for concrete and anchor bolts on the teepee structure –an 11-sided polygon with integrated pile caps and plinths. The completed structure will be both interesting and beautiful!

Thank you to the team at Krawford: It has been a pleasure working with you on this project.

 

Devonshire Expansion

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The Devonshire Seniors Community is adding 2 new wings to their existing building. Tundra completed the foundation portion this month, with some retaining walls scheduled for next month. This is our second project with Krawford Construction: Although the people were different, the experience was extremely positive once again!

SDM in Whitecourt AB

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Another Shoppers Drug Mart foundation! This one was very similar to the Calgary Trail location we completed over a year ago: It’s a standard 3’ & 6’ grade beam with integrated curb and structural steel framing. We’re happy to work with Fillmore Construction’s team again, and are looking forward to the next one!

 

Tundra Foundations Turns 5!

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Tundra Foundations is 5 Years Old!

We officially passed our 5-year milestone!

Back in the late summer of 2019, we started with just 2 employees and only a couple small jobs on the books. Since then, we have grown slowly but surely: Now we have a solid team of excellent employees (enough to handle 3 sites at a time), and we have enough work on the books to keep us very, very busy!

A big THANK YOU to those customers who took a chance on a relatively new company and allowed us to prove we could do the job!

Tundra Jobsites 2019-2024:

Rushing to Beat the Cold Weather at Baydo Pointe

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We are ahead of schedule at our Baydo Pointe project, but are working long hours to beat the coming cold weather. Hopefully it can stay above freezing for a couple more weeks!

Our speed is thanks in large part to the use of Doka-supplied panel formwork. Every time I use the system I am impressed with it’s speed and versatility. We are currently pouring 150′ of wall every week, and I feel like we could go faster if we had more forms on site. And we don’t require a lot of manpower — a crew of 3-4 workers can strip out and stand (one-side) the formwork in 2 days, and button up in another day.

The structural concrete at this 6-story apartment building is confined to the parkade perimeter walls and footings. The floors and walls are pre-cast concrete mounted on steel columns and beams. It will be interesting to compare the pace of construction of this project to the adjacent wood-frame apartments, which are also 6-story.

 

 

Chinese Elders Mansion – Edmonton, AB

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Decorative Concrete Wall

I have always been extremely happy with our work on the Chinese Elders Mansion, a project we completed in 2022 for Stanley Construction, but I never was able to take pictures of the completed work until this summer!

This formwork and finishing profile on this project was challenging for several reasons:

  • The shape had to match existing concrete as seamlessly as possible.
  • Form ties were restricted to areas of the profile that were to be painted (rather than sand-blasted).
  • Extreme care was needed to shape the top profile in the wet concrete.

Seeing the project 100% complete for the first time recently, I thought it was worth sharing!

 

 

Two Edmonton Grocery Stores

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Tundra recently completed the foundations for two new Edmonton grocery stores: a Co-op Food Store located in the Orchards neighbourhood, and a new Sobey’s FreshCo located on Manning Drive. We’re proud of our workers for completing both jobs on extremely tight schedules, and it was great to work for these two general contactors again: Norson Construction and Eton-West Construction!

Shoppers Drug Mart – Gateway Blvd

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Tundra recently completed the foundation for this new Shoppers Drug Mart going up on Gateway Blvd in Edmonton. This was a fun job for us, and our first for Fillmore Construction, who we hope to work with again! We love pic #3: it showcases the difference in formwork quality between the loading dock grade beam (not exposed to view) and the ramp wall (will be visible).